Big Bow, KS Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,200 ft 975 m3,180 ft 970 m3,170 ft 965 m3,150 ft 960 m3,130 ft 955 m3,120 ft 950 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Big Bow sits at about 3,170 ft (965 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
3,170 ft 965 m
few residents
Lowest
3,120 ft 950 m
on the east side
Highest
3,200 ft 975 m
on the northwest side
Average
3,170 ft 965 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Big Bow spans about 80 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 3,170 ft965 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 3,200 ft975 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 3,120 ft950 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Bow | 3,180 ft970 m |
| Average of all land | 3,170 ft965 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,170 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.1 °F96.7 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.6 inHg (90.2 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Stanton County, Kansas, United States
- Population
- 32 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi
- Density
- 6.4 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5650° N, 101.5616° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- Closed basin (does not reach the sea)
- ZIP codes 1
- 67855
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bear Creek Township3,500 ft
- Manter3,490 ft
- Richfield3,390 ft
- Richfield Township3,350 ft
- Johnson City3,340 ft
- Hartland Township3,250 ft
- Big Bow3,170 ft
- Kendall Township, Hamilton County3,160 ft
- Kendall Township3,100 ft
- Ulysses3,050 ft
- Moscow3,050 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kansas60th highest of 1,996
- Towns in Stanton Countylowest of 3
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Big Bow is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.